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Subject: OT - anyone know of an app that will uninstall a program in a form that can be r


leather-guy ( ) posted Mon, 08 March 2010 at 12:55 PM · edited Thu, 09 January 2025 at 4:35 PM

I'm sorry this is so very off-topic, but I've tried Google and can't figure a search that will get me the info I need.
My problem. I've been migrating my apps to a new PC, and I find a couple of my original distribution disks have gone missing.
One of them is my ProPack upgrade for Poser 4 disk.  I'm not looking to get a copy of the disk, I have it installed on my older computer, but I'm planning on scrubbing the hard drive to donate it to an indian reservation school.  I do have have the manuals and serial numbers (I actually bought two copies of ProPack so I could use one on a friend's computer, but he passed away and I scubbed his disks long ago so his widow could sell his laptop), but my actual disk or disks aren't with my other Poser disks ( I have install disks for all the versions except for Version 2 - it was on old floppies and don't have a drive to read them in anyway). 
I once had a program that would un-install an application into a self-installing exe to aid in migrating to new pc's, but that was years ago and I wouldn't trust it to use on a more modern app. 
I've looked at several programs like PC-Mover and PC-Relocator and such, but they're all designed to move whole systems and settings, not individual apps.  Last time I used one and found tons of obsolete crap in my drivers and settings so I'm resistant to use one again; I've already fresh-installed most of my aps anyway, I just have a couple of odds and ends that I can't find the original downloads or distribution files (NOT warez or cracked software - I don't use them).

Anyone know of any such programs?

This is/are a program/programs I've purchased and used for some time - I just need to get it/them over to my shiny new computer.


WandW ( ) posted Mon, 08 March 2010 at 5:10 PM

I recall the program you were talking about-I believe it was from McAfee, but I don't think it works with XP.  I don't know of anything comparable today.

I haven't worked much with earlier versions of Poser, but Poser 7 is self-contained, so it can be transfered over by copying the program directory over to the new computer..

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markschum ( ) posted Mon, 08 March 2010 at 6:42 PM

I would zip the program folder for Poser4 , and then instal it on your new machine from the instal disk  , and then unzip the pro-pack version on top of it.  That should work unless the registry is keeping track of versions.


kawecki ( ) posted Tue, 09 March 2010 at 12:04 AM

For Poser is very easy and you don't need any uninstall/install, just zip the Poser folder and unzip it at another place/disk/computer or burn a CD/DVD for backup and then delete the Poser folder.
If the size of Poser folder is bigger than 2GB or 1GB (don't remember) you cannot use zip that has size limits, compress it as rar with WinRar that has no size limits and can create multiple volumes of CD size or a single file to burn a DVD.
The compression ratio of Poser is near 40%.

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leather-guy ( ) posted Wed, 10 March 2010 at 4:34 PM

Well, copying the main folders over from my backup drive did indeed work - Poser 4 now IDs as ProPack on the splash screen, and it reads all the PNGs in the libraries (which I think was new in ProPack).  Don't really expect to use it as much as the newer types, but I want it on my computer available for testing when I'm asked to beta-test products.
Thanks for the responses.

I still wish I could find such an uninstall-to-reinstall program, though.  I have several incredibly useful utility programs I use that I installed long ago from magazine CD's, links on tech forums and such without thinking to archive the distribution files - if I can't find a way to port them over individually I'm really going to miss them; case in point - File Finder, a fast non-indexing hard drive search tool that I use daily.


WandW ( ) posted Wed, 10 March 2010 at 7:38 PM

Quote - ...File Finder, a fast non-indexing hard drive search tool that I use daily.

It wouldn't be this one, would it?

www.atensoftware.com/p44.php

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leather-guy ( ) posted Wed, 10 March 2010 at 7:56 PM

Thank you so much for the suggestion, but no.  I'd looked that site over and the one I use is quite a bit newer than Windows 95 - it can search a 1 TB drive in under 4 minutes, and without bogging the system down with indexes and updating indexes.  I think I have a vague recollection it was a free premium with a font utility I purchased  long ago, and threw the diskette away when I stopped using the utility. It's only one out of a dozen things I'd like to port over anyway.
  I do appreciate the effort.


EnglishBob ( ) posted Thu, 11 March 2010 at 4:12 AM

From what I understand, (and I Am Not A Windows Developer) this should be a difficult thing to do properly, although I'd be happy to be conclusively contradicted by someone.

There are uninstallers out there (Revo freeware is my favourite) which will root about on your system and dig out stray files and registry entries. It does this by scanning the application you're about to remove before starting the uninstall procedure. To be honest, I have no idea if it is 100% effective - it would not be a disaster if a file or registry entry was occasionally left behind. However, if the aim was to gather up resources so they could be reinstalled, it would be a disaster if anything was missed.

In addition, installation is sometimes a conditional process, i.e. it can be dependent on the configuration of your machine. Files which may be needed for situation B might not have been installed at all for situation A, so they would not be available to put in the reinstall package.

As I said, this is conjecture based on my limited knowledge of Windows' internals. I may be wrong, in fact I hope I am; but in the meantime, don't get your hopes up too high... :(


WandW ( ) posted Thu, 11 March 2010 at 5:52 AM

Thinking about it, if the program's uninstall log  should contain a list of the relevant registry entries  and files installed and their locations.  You can then gather the files and copy them to the new machine, and locate and export the registry entires.  This article may help:

http://hubpages.com/hub/How-to-force-uninstall-a-program

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"Oh - the manual says that? I have never read the manual - this must be why."
“I could buy better software, but then I'd have to be an artist and what's the point of that?"
"The [R'osity Forum Search] 'Default' label should actually say 'Don't Find What I'm Looking For'".
bagginsbill's Free Stuff... https://web.archive.org/web/20201010171535/https://sites.google.com/site/bagginsbill/Home


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